Nope. They need room for the plethora of quickly cancelled shows and even quicker cancelled reality shows with ambitious/ horriffying goals. Remember Who's Your Daddy? or Married By America? Me neither. Remember when Dale did something stupid and Bobby just wasn't right? Fuck yeah.

The other thing that's really interesting about King of the Hill (or Smell My Finger as I call it) is that it doesn't travel well at all - trust me, you must have to be Texan or retarded Trig-level dumb to find anything about this rag-tag bunch of interconnect bollocks to be anything other than a desperate attempt by Fox to make a show that people with an IQ lower than their shoe size can relate to.

It's worse than According To Jim - a show that gave me stomach cancer just by seeing the previews.

Sadly, as time dragged on so did the premise. Dale's amusing paranoia got boring. Hank's propane devotion turned into a fetish. Bobby went from fat little obnoxious shit to fat obnoxious little shit. Well, at least that stayed the same.

There's only so many times you can play the same jokes before they get retarded. Kinda like those "Damn you, Michael Bay!!!" or "George Lucas raped my childhood." chants here on AICN. Funny as hell at first, but like sex with an Amish prostitute after a while.

Plus, with the show being constantly preempted or shuffled in and out of the "time slot of death" I long ceased to care.

IMO, the only things funny things ever created by judge were Office Space & Beavis & Butthead. Everything else, including the mildly entertaining Idiocracy, is a blip.

On another note, I'll be joining a couple million of my fellow Philadelphians for the biggest block party this town's had in 25 years. A victory parade for the Phillies. It will be one hell of a ride. :)

Maybe it's not my kind of show - my favourite comedy shows tend to be Spaced, Black Books, good Simpsons, The Office (UK version), Extras, etc. For some reason, King Of The Hill felt incredibly underfed somehow. Maybe you gotta be from the States to "get it".

Frankly, it would be the first comedy I know of that I failed to "get".

I screened a couple episodes for my English friends and they didn't get any of it- which makes sense cause the best things in the show are all the exaggerated character traits and social oddities that exist in America.

Conversely, I truly didn't get what the hell was so great about Little Britain, Alan Partridge, or Catherine Tate.

The earlier Simpsons series focusing on the dysfunction of family life were fantastically funny and well written. KOTH has pretty much maintained that focus, and as such is easily relatable no matter where you come from.

Because, as a Canadian living in Britain, I also never managed to get the appeal of this show's sense of humour. And I say that as someone who loved Judge's other stuff, e.g. Beavis & Butthead. Still, it lasted 13 seasons and those who liked it seem to have *really* liked it, so ... kudos.

How does this work, do the scum (Fox) retain the copyright, or could Judge try and convince another network to take over? Comedy Central?

I thought it was a great compliment in 'cartoon wars' when the slapfight led into the KOTH offices, and they showed guys WRITING! KOTH is not everyone's cup of tea, but the humor and jokes organically flow from the true nature of the characters. Occasionally it's bizarre, but brilliantly. Buckley's trampoline, anyone?

With Family Guy, I'm reminded of Oscar Wilde's saying "If you can't be witty, be blasphemous. In a pinch it can pass for wit."

I digress. I will really miss this show, but am happy there's a substantial amount of episodes for me to enjoy through syndication.

Only 13 years. Maybe this is a sign that they'll eventually get around to canceling the Simpsons (and 24) one of these days.

On average though, KOTH was Fox's best animated sitcom. A lot of people here are posting about how stupid they thought the was show was, but the writing was far more intelligent than the Simpsons or Family Guy. And it was consistently good, which is an amazing feat when you consider how long the show has been on. The only people who didn't like this are NY and LA elitists who can't put aside their hatred of middle America long enough to appreciate the clever jokes. And it's not that I don't hate some of the characters. Peggy is one of the most vile characters on TV, but Hank was certainly respectable, even if you disagreed with his beliefs and lifestyle.

I was once a NY liberal myself and now that I live in Colorado and still visit NY from time to time, I appalled by how much hatred NYers have for people who are different. When I grew up in NY, I use to think on some level, that we were somehow more enlightened than the narrow minded hillby bumblefucks out there, but after spending more time with redneck types, I realize that NY is much more close-minded and backwards. For instance, it's easy to find people of any political persuasion in Colorado and they're all use to having friends on the other side so they're more open to a fair debate. In NY, they are almost all, with very few exceptions, devout liberals who can't stop yapping about how much they hate Sarah Palin or whatever. Not that I'm a fan of hers either, but it's like they have no sense of perspective and it'll be someone else, once she's gone. So many of their friends reinforce their beliefs to the point where anyone who thinks otherwise is considered plain stupid. Even liberals out here find NYers insufferably arrogant. Ironically, this is why lightweights like Palin manage to do well in the red states, people think that if the NY and LA types hate her so much, that she must be good. I've never seen that much conservative hatred for Obama (some, but not nearly as intense). Anyway, KOTH is a great show that open-minded people tend to appreciate, was my point.

This cancellation reminds me of that time I was an astronaut, in which nothing having anything to do with cancellations of any kind or in any possible way, took place.

See, thats really funny right there what I did. oh yeah, its funny enough to support THREE television shows.

*KOOLAIDMANCRASH* OHHH YEAAAAAAHHHHH!

I for one am amazed King of the Hill stayed on this long, considering how little Fox promoted it these last few years. Great show, and destined to be one of the most underrated shows on TV, ever.

Just imagine...

"My rabies has taken a turn for the worse. I am starting to hallucinate. When I close my eyes I can see strange characters running around chasing colorful geometric shapes in a dark and infinite limbo." -Dale's recorded survival diary update.

Classic.

I guess they want programming that appeals to the same people who watch FOX News.

I'll gladly tune in to ABC to watch Mike Judge show Seth McFarlane how animation is supposed to be done. If there's any luck, his new show will run opposite "Family Guy" and wipe the floor with it.

So Sunday has officially become the Seth McFarlane Crapstravaganza. I bet they're doing this because it's cheaper to feed manatees than it is to pay real writers.

KOTH had a good run of it, what the hell.

YES! I have made a snarky, nasty, yet somehow insightful talkback on AICN, I am now a fully-fledged cliche!

I'm English and love the show, and the only time I've been to Texas was when I passed through it on a Greyhound coach. Still, it's easy to get a feel for the demographic the show portrays (with a nice mixture of affection and satirical deconstruction), and it's easy for comedy fans to appreciate the wry, often warm character-based writing (and lack of any reliance on surrealism. It may not have been consistently excellent throughout its entire run, but it's given my friend (a comedy writer) and me many hours of hilarity and enjoyment. Sad to see it go, though I suppose it was time.